Counselling Services Department

What is Counselling?

Counselling is a process where the client and counselor work together through purposeful conversation in an understanding environment to come up with different ways to experience, understand and respond to life situations.

Talking to a professional counsellor can help people to deal with strong emotions, sort through confusion or worry, plan ways of making positive life changes, and feel understood and supported. Counselling can provide the support to help people to feel empowered in their lives.

How can counseling help?

The Counselling Services department provides assistance to vulnerable individuals and families in a number of different ways: through managing emotional responses, behavioral functioning, relationship management and communication, goal setting and pursuit, refining problems, identifying strengths and possible solutions, promoting efficient and effective actions, developing positive coping mechanisms and many more.

The kinds of issues that might be dealt with in counselling include:

Anger management

Anxiety and panic

Coping with health risks

Coping with terminal illness

Coping with family member illness

Depression

Family or relationship issues

Grief and loss

Lack of motivation

Life events and transitions

Self-esteem

Stress management

Sexual/emotional/physical abuse

Substance abuse

Suicidal thoughts

Teenage and unplanned pregnancy

The Counselling Service Department work in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Department of Social Welfare, Department of Correctional Services and many community organizations, as well as with the valued support of our donors, to ensure counselling is available to: